PM system edit

[Texas]

Todge: You can send PM's to specific people via URL. Like this URL support.proboards.com/conversation/new/173855 will send one to me. By comma separating the ID's of users you can send it to them. And since the built in plugin search...thingy...saves users as ID's, it's very simple to send a PM if you have the person who adds the plugin add the usernames of all staff members to the forum search in the plugin. There wouldn't be a way to just put the username of "staff" as the person to send the PM to, but you could put a button on the PM page that would simple redirect you to the URL that automatically added all the staff members to the "recipient" list.

Hopefully that made sense. And Hopefully it was helpful...

[Boy_Wonder]

This would work as well Texas ^_^

[Todge]

Yep, I just tested that theory and came back to tell Boy_Wonder.

So, as Texas said, it is possible, in a round-about way. So, at worst you'd need a 'Staff' button, but I have another idea I want to test first.

[Boy_Wonder]

Okaylies ^_^ I'll let you test Todge - I could cope with a staff button its just a way to make it easier for people to pm the entire staff team as timezones xD

[Todge]

Boy_Wonder, give this a go..

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[Boy_Wonder]

Quick question just to check I'm reading it right - ID numbers refers to the end of the url like admin gets user/1 right?

Edit: Yes it is and it works like a charm! Thank you!

[Texas]

Todge: It would be a little simpler to use the forum search for usernames. The forum search saves the ID's of the user in an array. So you can convert that to a string or just leave it as an array depending on your needs. It's also easier for the plugin users.

But that's just a suggestion.

[Todge]

I did toy with the idea of grabbing the staff member IDs in that way, but decided against it, simply because it would require extra navigation to grab the ID numbers when the user would need to input them into the plugin anyway.

It would make it a little simpler to grab them, then just copy/paste, but that's about it.

[Todge]

Nov 9, 2013 14:41:40 GMT -8 Boy_Wonder said:

Quick question just to check I'm reading it right - ID numbers refers to the end of the url like admin gets user/1 right?

Edit: Yes it is and it works like a charm! Thank you!

Yes, and no worries..

[Wormopolis]

what about just making it where the group members have to be manually chosen in the plugin itself. like an autoform with a group name as the collection title. then the members are chosen in the autoform. the autoform collects all the members ids already, so making the link just takes joining all the ids with a comma at the end of the URL.

[Texas]

Nov 9, 2013 17:49:02 GMT -8 Todge said:

I did toy with the idea of grabbing the staff member IDs in that way, but decided against it, simply because it would require extra navigation to grab the ID numbers when the user would need to input them into the plugin anyway.

It would make it a little simpler to grab them, then just copy/paste, but that's about it.

Todge: What I meant to say was use the built in plugin forum search. There's one built into the user interface. The plugin installer goes the user interface area, searches for usernames of the people he/she wants in the "staff" group. And the id's of those users are automatically stored in the plugin data. It's essentially the same thing you have, accept the user doesn't have to manually go and find all the id's of the users in the staff. They can just search for the members in the plugin interface and it will store it for them.

[Wormopolis]

is that different then what I said?

[Texas]

Hmmm...I guess not, I should to bed, I'm not thinking straight.

[Todge]

Ahh.. I see.

I've never used the Forum Search in a plugin before, for some stupid reason, I thought it was for the creator to choose who for or where the plugin would function.

Boy_Wonder, version 1.0.1 is available from the same link, now including the search option.

Thanks guys.

[Boy_Wonder]

Thanks Todge, I'm quite happy with the 1.0 set up - its not hard for me to find the ids out when I have a list of staff members in a side table ^_^